Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Wk 4 Studs, Duds, Rising Stars, Injuries

down the field, stretch, catch-a-bomb type of players. Sammy Watkins could do that. Goodwin could do that. But he's not that great, you know, just grinding it out between the 20s, hitting, you know, 10-yard outs. That's what he did this game, though. So we'll see what happens. I'm with you, though. I don't think Woods is a very, I think you got better upside plays. Forte. I'll say an update for Sammy Watkins, there's a Schefter report that.

It is likely that he will need another surgery, which means he would not be coming back. They might have to redo the screw in his foot. All right. Let's move on. Matt Forte, look, there was one report that he was on a cart headed to the Jets X-ray room, but there has not been a lot of news about this. Something to you pay attention to. If you're in a league that, you know...

Waiver wire, you might want to look at Bilal Powell. Polal Bowel. Bilal Bowel out snapped Forte and outproduced him. Belal Powell has been actually really hyper efficient this season. If you look at his featsy points per touch, yeah, he's been great. He hasn't been involved that much. But he's been involved now two weeks in a row. I believe two weeks ago, he caught six catches. This last week he was involved. He caught six catches?

Fire up the Twitter account. He caught the actual catch? Yeah, no, he did. How do you catch a catch? That's amazing. I cannot catch a catch. Passes. Yeah, I think that's what you were looking for. But he did, he did catch passes. Yeah, he caught several passes for two weeks in a row, double digits and fantasy points. If you're in a half point league this week,

Got to pay attention to this report on Forte because he was inefficient, obviously a tough matchup, and then maybe an injury. So we'll see. Chris Johnson left week four against the Rams, groin injury, doesn't look good. Probably going to miss some time. David Johnson, Andre Ellington will be the depth chart in Arizona. Cam Newton, monster concussion. Yes. I saw that play, and I know you guys.

We're somewhat happy that, you know. No, no, no, no. His little casual jaunt was punished. Happy is the wrong word. The right word. What? I said for you. Okay. Now, the word for me is the guy was playing football. And they were, I believe the play was not called a penalty. And there was people freaking out. Well, it should have been a penalty. And it's a, he's a runner. Yeah. I mean, it's a legal play. And if you're going to, if you are going to walk, taunt your way into the end zone.

and not pay attention to a defender who's closing in on you, you're going to get hit. I think he made a calculated mistake. Yes, I agree. Because he looked left, thought the guy wasn't there, looked right, and then when he came back, I'm not happy about it. I love Cameron Newton. I'm not like one of those, you know, get off of my lawn. I like him dabbing in the end zone. I like his personality. I'm a big Cam Newton fan as far as the dude.

But any guy, like or dislike, if you want to, like, taunt your way, I'm always rooting for you to get just smacked in the mouth when you're going like, oh, like, I'm a big UFC fan, right? I love when the guy is saying, like, hit me, hit me, go ahead, and he drops his hands. I love when that guy gets just knocked out because shame on you. And that's what it was. Yeah. Eric Ebron left in the first quarter with knee and ankle injuries, but he did return and caught all four of his targets after the injury, put a scare in his owners.

Yeah, should be good to go. Pay attention to him. Kevin White, unfortunately, exited week four. He was very involved in the offense before leaving, but he had an ankle injury, headed for an MRI. We'll see what happens. Eddie Royal stepped up in a big way. Yes. Played great. And if you look at Eddie Royal's stats, you're talking about three or four weeks having a major fantasy impact. I mean, we're talking about, I think, 14 points, 14 points, and 20-something yesterday. And half-point leagues, yeah.

You have to pay attention to him. So Dwayne Washington left with an ankle injury. And Riddick and Washington, really disappointing fantasy owners along with Stafford and Jones and Tate. Yeah, the whole line's offense. Dwayne Washington, though, was, I mean, we don't know. The jury is still very out on how he can produce because the injury was very early in the game. All right. Let's talk about Devin Funches. He's out with a toe injury, not really fantasy relevant. Kevin Coleman.

He's dealing with the sick. So he has the sickle cell trait that prohibits players a lot of the times from playing in high altitude. Is that correct? Correct. So he may not be able to play in week five. Against Denver. It's worth noting or they might limit it a little. Okay. So we need to at least pay attention to that. Tom Brady's back. Yep. If you, if he.

Was on your bench. Congratulations. You now get to play Tom Brady. Also, this is called The Week I go and try to get Rob Grancowski. Yes. Because Gronkowski's been active, but done nothing for you for two weeks. He might have hurt his owner two weeks in a row. He probably did. Because I had him ranked eight this past week. I moved him down later in the week just out of a hedging because it's like always start Gronk, but then it's Jacoby Brissette. Yeah. So.

I think if you can go by Gronk, your world's going to change with him on your team and Brady behind center. Mike, you said you wanted to mention something else. I just wanted to throw out the PSA. We're through four weeks of the fantasy football season. That means some of you are getting ready. You're actually looking ahead. You're scouting the schedule for the playoffs. Just a reminder. Cleveland and Tennessee are on by week 13. This is an extremely late.

Bye week. So if you're rocking DeMarco Murray, Isaiah Crowell, some of these guys, just know that week 13 you will be without them. Yeah, check your leagues and see if that's when your fantasy playoffs start. If you do like the two week long playoff matchups, you might actually start in week 13. And I would say this. If your playoffs are in week 13, if you're in a league where you are in the playoffs in week 13,

I would trade DeMarco Murray and Isaiah Crowell and I would get something for them because you're getting an absolute zero. It's not a bad matchup. You know, we tell people like, look, if you've got studs and they've got a bad matchup in the playoffs, don't over worry about that. But that's not a bad matchup. That's a guaranteed zero. I don't know if I would trade them right now. I might ride them. Sure. Get a couple more victories. Yeah, get a couple more victories. But just keep that in the back of your mind.

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All right, there were a lot of them. They weren't all on my team, unfortunately. You got to play against some. Yeah. I got to enjoy Big Ben just going ham. That was one of those eye roll games because I was going into the matchup against Big Ben. And I just basically to win, all I needed was Big Ben to be okay. Like I had Kurt Cousins. I'm like, ah, you know, if Big Ben goes out puts up 25, that's fine. And when you're watching those games and you're like,

on edge and you're like oh please nothing bad happened and two turnovers in the first like short fields for big bin that you just know or touchdown i mean lucky for you he went full bandaid i mean that thing was that's true your hope just ripped it right off was severed immediately look when marcus weaton's making plays you know you're not meant to win this week big ben 22 for 27 300 yards five touchdowns could have scored five more if he wanted to matt ryan 28 for 37 a measly

503 yards and four touchdowns including 300 of them against or I mean with Julio Jones look Carolina misses Josh Norman don't you think probably a little bit yep you know who doesn't miss him Julio Jones really impressive this is the game that I think was a maker break I think we said that in the week we said if Matt Ryan comes out yes and destroys Carolina

Yeah, no, it was a big test because Matt Ryan had, he had gotten some very cushy matchups to start, and I will say this. Perhaps we are just over-analyzing Carolina, giving them a little bit too much credit that they have to still be this feared matchup. I still, I believe it was a great performance by Ryan. I'm going to give humongous credit to him as far. That Carolina is still a good defense, but maybe Carolina is not that.

elite defense that you have to, where you're like, like Denver, where you're going, I'm benching my guys. You want to hear something interesting that I just realized? What's that? In my brain. The two NFC championship teams, Carolina and Arizona, are one and three and their quarterbacks were concussed this week.

Yeah, it's no good. And I agree with what you're saying, Mike, and I think it's important to know because we need to evaluate Matt Ryan and say how much of it was him, how much of it was Carolina. I mean, look, week one against Denver, that was a pure defensive matchup. There wasn't a lot of, it was a mostly running game. Then week two against San Francisco and Blaine Gabbert, they go about 243 yards and two touchdowns, which is not the Carolina that we know, and then get torched.

um you know this week by matt ryan so you know i i'm i know this is weird to do two weeks in a row but i feel like oh there's no way there's just no way you can play matt ryan this week against denver against denver because they are legit they are the truth yeah i mean akib talib is the boss i mean i i agree with you i can't i can't do it i don't i don't think it's a flame stay in situation i just don't think you can do it

Now, that game's in Denver, too, right? Yes. Yeah. No, thank you. But amazing week for Matt Ryan. You don't drop him. Russell Wilson, 23 for 32, 309 and three touchdowns. Very impressive playing on the injuries for Russell Wilson. Well, the quick question was what top quarterback didn't have, you know, rushing yards? Russell Wilson was one of the top quarterbacks. And he always has rushing yards. Didn't eat them. Derek Carr, four touchdowns on only 199 yards.

Had a very good game. Three of them went to Crabtree. Has Derek Carr moved into a must-start category? Yeah. Yeah, I think so, especially with at home next week against San Diego, which has been giving up a lot of passing yardage. Derek Carr's a must-start next week. Blake Bortles had a good game in London. Yeah, this was nice to see. Well, an okay game. I said, well, not huge yardage. He went through for 207, but he two touchdowns and ran one in, yeah. Ran for 36 yards, too. If he does that, he really helps that baseline. Alan Robinson looked good.

Joe Flacco, Brian Hoyer had big games. We were the three highest experts on Brian Hoyer in the fantasy football community, which is a terrifying place to live. Oh, yeah. Just scary. I was very comfortable there. Oh, it's a dangerous place. Well, he came through 28 for 36, 300 yards and two touchdowns. Yeah, Hoyer. Joe Flacco, good game, 298 and a touchdown ran one in. Steve Smith, looking like Steve Smith. We'll talk about him.

Soon enough. And Andrew Luck pieced it together in garbage time with no offensive line. They actually started nobody there. Well, come back time. One center. They just snap it to him. He runs and chucks it. And case, don't you don't skip over Case Keenham. No, Case Keenum. Hey, if you started Case Keenum, send me a screenshot. I want to see the courage. I went and checked our rankings on him to just see if any of us had him above. We were all 30 on him. I mean, in Arizona. That was one that.